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Onykia  Lesueur, 1821
Taxonomic Serial No.: 82443

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Onychia Latreille, 1825
  
    Steenstrupiola Pfeffer, 1884
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 1999   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassCephalopoda Cuvier, 1797 – octopuses, squids, calmars, encornets, pieuvres, poulpes, náutilo, polvo, cefalopode, lula  
                   SubclassColeoidea Bather, 1888  
                      SuperorderDecabrachia Boettger, 1952  
                         OrderTeuthida Naef, 1916  
                            SuborderOegopsina D'Orbigny, 1845  
                               FamilyOnychoteuthidae Gray, 1847  
                                  GenusOnykia Lesueur, 1821  
    Direct Children:  
                                     Species Onykia appellofi (Pfeffer, 1900)  
                                     Species Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821  
                                     Species Onykia indica Okutani, 1981  
                                     Species Onykia intermedia (Pfeffer, 1912)  
                                     Species Onykia platyptera (D'Orbigny, 1834 in 1834-1847)  
                                     Species Onykia rancureli Okutani, 1981  
                                     Species Onykia verrilli (Pfeffer, 1900)  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Michael J. Sweeney  
  Notes: Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20560   
  Reference for: Onykia    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Onykia   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lesueur, C. A.  
  Publication Date: 1821   
  Article/Chapter Title: Description of several new species of Cuttle-fish   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2 (1)   
  Page(s): 86-101   
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  Notes: 7 plates.   
  Reference for: original description   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Sweeney, M. J. and C. F. E. Roper / N. A. Voss, M. Vecchione, R. B. Toll and M. J. Sweeney, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Classification, type localities and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (I-II)   
  Page(s): 561-599   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, D. C., USA   
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  Notes:    
  Reference for: Onykia   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Tsuchiya, K. and T. Okutani  
  Publication Date: 1992   
  Article/Chapter Title: Growth stages of Moroteuthis robusta (Verrill, 1881) with the re-evaluation of the genus   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of Marine Science, 49 (1-2) (1991)   
  Page(s): 137-147   
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  Reference for: Onykia   
       

 Geographic Information
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Taxon Validity: Questionable genus [fide Tsuchiya and Okutani (1992)]. Type species: Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821 by monotypy  
 

 

    

 
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